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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3307 Collections and/or Records:

Printing at The Whittington Press 1972-1994, 1994

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Identifier: CC-04768-4858
Scope and Contents

Part 4 includes an annotated listing of the issues of Matrix, a periodical published by the Whittington Press and held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Printing Poetry: A Workbook in Typographic Reification , 1980

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Identifier: CC-21033-21442
Scope and Contents

Book describes the craft of letterpress printing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Prior to Meaning: The Protosemantic and Poetics, 2001

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Identifier: CC-46341-49065
Scope and Contents

This book is from the Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies series. "From the writing of seventeenth-centuy England to the avant-garde contemporary poetics of writers...McCaffery traces intersections along a broad conceptual plan that he terms he protosemantic, demonstrating how a reader must examine the interstices of each text, its paragrammic possibilities, and Deleuzean folds." McCaffery includes a section on "A Humument" by Tom Phillips. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Private Impressions: Evolution. No.5/Jun / Mike Hudson., 2000

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Identifier: CC-35150-36884
Scope and Contents

This essay provides a brief history of typography up to the 15th century. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Private Impressions: Introduction. No.0/Jun / Mike Hudson ; Jadwiga Jarvis., 2000

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Identifier: CC-35149-36883
Scope and Contents

This essay provides brief history of typography and the printing trade. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Private Impressions: Re-Evaluation / Jarvis, Jadwiga ; Hudson, Mike ; Jarry A ; Delaunay S ; Schwitters K ; Blake W., 2001

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Identifier: CC-37956-39838
Scope and Contents

This is the fourth in a series of four monographs concerned with the evolution of reading traditions and book practices over the past 2000 years. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Pro Eto (facsimile) / Mayakovsky, Vladimir ; Rodchenko, Aleksander ; Brik L., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33698-35360
Scope and Contents This book reprints the poem Mayakovsky's "Pro Eto," written between December 1922 and February 1923, along with English and German translations, documentation, color reproductions of the original photomontages, and critical text. Alexander Lavrentiev writes that "it is a work in which Mayakovsky uses the novel medium of freely associative verse to grapple - sometimes realistically, sometimes availing himself of poetic licence - with love and philistinism, revolution and drinking tea." When Mayakovsky travelled to Berlin for an exhibition of works by graphic artists from Russia, he noticed publications that successfully used photographs and photomontages instead of drawings. He requested Rodchenko, with whom he had previously collaborated in advertising work, to produce photomontages for the book. Pro Eto was published in 1923. The book is considered one of the milestones in innovative literary content and graphic presentation first "because it represents a new kind of love poetry....
Dates: 1999

Probleme der Kunstlichen Intelligenz / Wiener, Oswald., 1990

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Identifier: CC-33457-35099
Scope and Contents

The theme of this book deals with artificial intelligence as it relates to art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Process and Printmaking / Johns, Jasper., 1996

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Identifier: CC-30857-32308
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The text describes Johns' printmaking process using several well known prints as examples. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Profile Pentagram Design / Yelavich, Susan, editor ; Scher P ; DeBotton A ; Miller A ; Poynor R ; McConnell J ; Hyland A ; Bierut M ; Pirtle W ; Hinrichs K., 2004

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Identifier: CC-43579-45657
Scope and Contents

Profile celebrates the individual designers who are partners of the international design studios of Pentagram. Nineteen partners are profiled by nineteen distinguished authors alongside explorations into Pentagram's strong collective ethos, uniquely succcessful organizational structure, and place in design history. Karrie Jacobs contributed an essay on Paula Scher titled 'Three Letters: e.V.O.' Concrete or shaped poetic layouts for graphic design projects are depicted for the folowing Pentagram partners: John Mcconnell, Angus Hyland, Paula Scher, Michael Bierut, Woody Pirtle, and Kit Hinrichs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Projecto:Poesia, 1984

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Identifier: CC-15147-15468
Scope and Contents

This book is a history of Portuguese poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Prosa politica, 2005

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Identifier: CC-47593-68602
Scope and Contents

This book consists of a collection of anti-religious establishment essays. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Prosa zum Beispiel, 1965

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Identifier: CC-33459-35101
Scope and Contents

This book is a collection of brief, critical essays. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965